Interactive Background Processes

[Stephen Samuel]

>From article <Jul.2.05.40.52.1988.8275 at porthos.rutgers.edu>, by webber at porthos.rutgers.edu.UUCP:
> In article <16365 at brl-adm.ARPA>, kvancamp at ardec.arpa (Ken Van Camp) writes:
>> 
>> 	When running large, computationally-intensive programs (such as ....
>> perform other tasks, logout, etc.  Unfortunately, under Unix, selecting
>> background processing precludes interactivity in the software.

You can still open a specific TTY... If you do not orphan the task, then you
can still query /dev/tty, else you can find out which tty to talk to and 
open(3) /dev/ttyxxx directly and talk to it..
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